Ezekiel 18:2

"What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge'?

Isaiah 3:15

What do you mean by crushing my people, by grinding the face of the poor?" declares the Lord GOD of hosts.

Lamentations 5:7

Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities.

Jeremiah 31:29-30

In those days they shall no longer say: "'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.'

Jeremiah 15:4

And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 6:2-3

"Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,

Ezekiel 7:2

"And you, O son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

Ezekiel 17:12

"Say now to the rebellious house, Do you not know what these things mean? Tell them, behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took her king and her princes and brought them to him to Babylon.

Ezekiel 25:3

Say to the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord GOD, Because you said, 'Aha!' over my sanctuary when it was profaned, and over the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and over the house of Judah when they went into exile,

Ezekiel 36:1-6

"And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD.

Ezekiel 37:11

Then he said to me, "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, 'Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are indeed cut off.'

Ezekiel 37:19

say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am about to take the stick of Joseph (that is in the hand of Ephraim) and the tribes of Israel associated with him. And I will join with it the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, that they may be one in my hand.

Ezekiel 37:25

They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children shall dwell there forever, and David my servant shall be their prince forever.

Romans 9:20

But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, "Why have you made me like this?"

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?

General references

Bible References

Mean

Ezekiel 17:12
"Say now to the rebellious house, Do you not know what these things mean? Tell them, behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took her king and her princes and brought them to him to Babylon.
Isaiah 3:15
What do you mean by crushing my people, by grinding the face of the poor?" declares the Lord GOD of hosts.
Romans 9:20
But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, "Why have you made me like this?"

The land

Ezekiel 6:2
"Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,
Ezekiel 7:2
"And you, O son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.
Ezekiel 25:3
Say to the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord GOD, Because you said, 'Aha!' over my sanctuary when it was profaned, and over the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and over the house of Judah when they went into exile,
Ezekiel 36:1
"And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD.
Ezekiel 37:11
Then he said to me, "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, 'Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are indeed cut off.'

The fathers

Jeremiah 15:4
And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 31:29
In those days they shall no longer say: "'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.'
Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities.

General references

Jeremiah 31:29
In those days they shall no longer say: "'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.'
Ezekiel 18:29
Yet the house of Israel says, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' O house of Israel, are my ways not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?

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